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Offline brady

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« on: August 12, 2002, 04:59:41 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2002, 06:50:58 AM »
Can't remember the model number , but it looks to be the gunsight for the remote controled turrets on a B-29

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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2002, 08:30:54 AM »
Looks to be the starboard midships gun director position on a B-29.

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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2002, 10:55:11 AM »
I thought it was a Norden, shows how much I know about bombers

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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2002, 06:36:18 PM »
B-29 gunner position, it is:)


  I had the great pleashure of siting just as the man in the photo is and holding that sight. I payed to get into "FiFi" at an airshow and sat in the bombadiers seat and took his sight in hand, prety neat device:)